Slavery Quotes

A man who will enslave his own blood, may not be safely relied on for magnamity.

Technical people don't make good slaves. Without their wholehearted cooperation, things fall apart.

The mind will enchain yourself, others or both. Your heart will set you / them free

Without peace, there is no freedom, individual or national. War and hostilities are a form of slavery.

It is slavery to live in the mind unless it has become part of the body

I think the rapidly growing tendency to regard animals as born for nothing except slavery to so-called humanity absolutely disgusting.

True, permanent peace can never be restored, until slavery, the occasion of the war, has ceased.

To yield reverence to another, to hold ourselves and our lives at his disposal, is not slavery; often, it is the noblest state in which a man can live in this world.

The price of freedom is the probability of crime. The price of protection is the probability of slavery.

It, sometimes, suits the slaveholders to claim, that their slavery is an exclusively State concern; and that the North has, therefore, nothing to do with it.

Slavery was incredibly prosperous for some people, at that time. It was not a bad business plan, but it was terrible and inhumane. But as a business it worked.

I need say no more, to prove that slavery is entirely unlike the servitude in the patriarchal families.

There shall be no slavery of the mind.

Our concern, however, is with slavery as it is, and not with any theory of it.

Maybe the same instruments and tools that have been used to keep people in slavery and ignorance could potentially be used to liberate and awaken them.

Slavery doesn't have any positives.

The challenges African-Americans are facing today are rooted in the system of slavery.

The main challenge Not For Sale is big and it is modern day slavery, which is a $32billion dollar industry second to the illegal trade of drugs and arms.

We must look at the institution of slavery as publicists, and not as casuists. It is a question of law, and not a case of conscience.

Where annual elections end where slavery begins.

Should I be worried about being a slave and being returned to slavery? Because certain things happened in the Constitution that had to change.

I would not have a slave to till my ground, To carry me, to fan me while I sleep, And tremble when I wake, for all the wealth That sinews bought and sold have ever earn'd.

They all agree, they are all unanimous in Congress, in the States, on the rostrum, in the sanctuary - everywhere they declare that slavery shall not go into the Territories.

Easier were it To hurl the rooted mountain from its base, Than force the yoke of slavery upon men Determin'd to be free.

I declare and protest in advance, that I do not intend, at this time at least; to be drawn or driven into the question of slavery, in either of its subdivisions or forms.

We are convinced that liberty without socialism is privilege, injustice; and that socialism without liberty is slavery and brutality.

The wrecks of slavery are fast growing a fungus crop of sentiment.

I will raid the arsenal and start a war to end slavery.

The augmentation of slaves weakens the states; and such a trade is diabolical in itself, and disgraceful to mankind.

I think a commission set up to examine slavery and the consequences of it, would probably be a very fruitful, important dialogue for the United States to be involved in.

Slavery is illegal everywhere, but it exists all over the world.

But when you see personal artifacts relating to - by genealogy at least - a living human being, it was just more impressive to me than just about anything I've ever read about slavery before.

When people think of slavery, they think of an era from the distant past. Grainy photographs from Civil War times. And yet it goes on.

If the alternative is to keep all just men in prison, or give up war and slavery, the State will not hesitate which to choose.

We were proclaiming ourselves political hypocrites before the world, by thus fostering Human Slavery and proclaiming ourselves, at the same time, the sole friends of Human Freedom.

Now I confess myself as belonging to that class in the country who contemplate slavery as a moral, social and political evil.

At first the relevance of chattel slavery to libertarian ideals was noted only in individual passages of isolated pamphlets.

The success of those doctrines would also subvert the Federal Constitution, change the character of the Federal Government, and destroy our rights in respect to slavery.

I am amazed at the facility with which some men follow in the wake of slavery.

We can constitutionally extirpate slavery at this time.

Within each of us lies the power of our consent to health and sickness, to riches and poverty, to freedom and to slavery. It is we who control these, and not another.

Mental slavery is worst than physical slavery

Slavery will not be overthrown without excitement, a most tremendous excitement.

America is not civil, whilst Africa is barbarous.

Every two, three years there is a movie about the Holocaust because they want you to remember and they want you to be reminded of what it was. When was the last time you seen a movie about slavery?

You think slavery is right and ought to be extended; while we think it is wrong and ought to be restricted. That I suppose is the rub. It certainly is the only substantial difference between us.

I thought I was making fifty dollars a week [at MGM], but it turned out to be $35 because twelve weeks of the year you were on layoff. It was white slavery, and it lasted for seventeen years.

Excessive liberty leads both nations and individuals into excessive slavery. [Lat., Nimia libertas et populis et privatis in nimiam servitutem cadit.]

The tools to crush modern slavery exist, but the political will is lacking.

I felt the exultancy of a man just released from slavery and ready to set the universe on fire.